VST plug-in missing

[DougLynch]

Good afternoon,
I recently upgraded to Finale 26 and am getting an error message, "Missing VST Instrument Plug-in: Kontakt." I can locate the Shreddage guitars, bass, and drums through the Native Instruments link but cannot get them into my Finale composition. "Help" instructs to place ".dll" files into C-drive, etc. but I am only seeing ".nki" files when looking at the specific instruments.

Thanks,

Doug

[Bill Reed]

If you open Native Access, and go to Preferences, you will see where the VST 64 dll was installed.

In Finale, go to the Audi/MIDI menu, Device Setup, and choose Manage VST Plug-in Directories

There you want to Add the directory path you found in Native Access

Then again go to Audi/MIDI menu, Device Setup and choose Rescan for VST Plug-ins

You should now be all set. the .nki files are the actually sound libraries that Kontakt opens

[DougLynch]

Followed that logic. Found the pathway. Entered them into the directory and clicked rescan but nothing happened.

[DougLynch]

I also just installed Kontakt 7 player as prompted in Native Access. Was using Kontakt 6 player. Wondering if it's not jibing somehow.

[DougLynch]

Bill,

Got it. A little perseverance.

Thank you,

Doug